New research is challenging long-held beliefs about how humans acquire and process language, suggesting our brains may rely ...

Swiss scientists have published research showing AI-informed robots can learn how to self correct and teach other robots how to behave. It raises questions of consciousness in artificial intelligence.

A paper appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a strikingly simple answer to a longstanding ...

Working memory is what allows humans to juggle different pieces of information in short-term scenarios, like making a mental grocery list and then going shopping or remembering and then dialing a ...

So, here’s the question: What does it mean to say someone has learned something when a machine can now do the same task? Artificial intelligence can generate essays, solve problems, and simulate ...

We learn early that agreement feels safer than being right. Children quickly discover that belonging and seeing clearly are ...

Learning a language can’t be that hard — every baby in the world manages to do it in a few years. Figuring out how the process works is another story. Linguists have devised elaborate theories to ...

Talking to yourself feels deeply human. Inner speech helps you plan, reflect, and solve problems without saying a word. New research suggests that this habit may also help machines learn more like you ...

Effective teaching is less about the perfect delivery of information and more about aligning our instructional choices with the cognitive realities of our students. This page offers a brief ...